Back to work Jan 1, 2009 journal Six months complete change and rest. Just what the doctor ordered, apart from the champagne jelly and the motoring in Egypt. I’m back, fighting fit June diary Jul 1, 2008 To Bramley for a couple of days working on CRM, and interviewed Karen Shaw for the Dyalog history. Surfed John Scholes’ couch, spending a great May diary Jun 1, 2008 To Fulham on May Day to visit Jill Mervin and politically unreconstructed friends in the South to celebrate the then still unannounced results of April diary May 1, 2008 journal Two software conferences, a hustings, a stag night and a camping holiday Weird Wild Web Apr 30, 2008 What my spam filter misses, I usually delete on sight. For some reason, I’m posting this. Is that what’s called ‘viral marketing’? I must have February diary Mar 1, 2008 journal & music Chill time as friends Seb & Aysegül Merrick took time from their demanding business to eat dinner with us. We must have gone off Valentine’s Day. January diary Feb 2, 2008 Our Twelfth Night party invitations this year encouraged our guests to bring music and instruments, and we did manage some songs before declaring December diary Dec 31, 2007 journal A Christmas market photo-shoot took us to Stow-on-the-Wold, with Maxx along for the dining room at The Grapes hotel, sadly no longer the treat it November diary Nov 30, 2007 Getting real but getting it wrong about carbon emissions, I used trains and a ferry to get myself and my bike back to Denmark for a 3-week push on October notes Oct 31, 2007 October started in New Jersey and ended in Denmark. Spennie & Pamela invited us to lunch at home and I managed to tear the bike rack off the car on Gloria gets carsick on Mondays Oct 19, 2007 arts & journal & poetry Seeking New York poets – in New York In darkness or at night Oct 17, 2007 At Dennis Severs’ house A power cut last night plunged our home into darkness, instantly extinguishing lights and computers. In minutes we were Who is my neighbour? Oct 15, 2007 As part of its Coffeehouse Challenge, the RSA is holding an online discussion at virtualrsa.com on Tue 30 October from 7-8pm on “Who Is My IT IDiocy Oct 10, 2007 The libertarian arguments against the government’s plans for a national ID database may be arguable; the practical ones are clear. David Birch sets Irate about Iraq, Iran Oct 8, 2007 To Trafalgar Square today to demonstrate for withdrawing our forces from Iraq, and against joining the attack on Iran that the US has been publicly Home pleasures Oct 7, 2007 The simple pleasures of home are sharper after months mostly on the road: making caffè latte in my own kitchen… biking down to Soho to see Gil The look of libel Sep 21, 2007 British libel laws swing into action again, protecting the interests of the “uncleansably rich”. Reposted from Pickled Politics: Well thank god for Surfing into New York Sep 20, 2007 Surfing the world-wide couch The New York Times has an extensive article today about couch surfing. My first experience as a CS surfer coming up Relaxin’ at Minnowbrook Sep 20, 2007 Minnowbrook then In the mountains, there you feel free And so we do, at the Minnowbrook Conference Centre beside Blue Mountain Lake in the heart A suitable case for an Asbo? Sep 17, 2007 politics Thanks to Susan Ormrod A reader writes… We have a huge council house at the end of our street. A grumpy old woman with a pack of fierce dogs runs Next page